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│ ABOUT PLANNING DEPARTMENT

Planning System

We prepare development strategies at the territorial level and various types of statutory and

departmental plans at the district/local level. In preparing these plans, reference will be
made to the Hong Kong Planning Standards and Guidelines.

Territorial Development Strategy

The territorial development strategy provides a broad territorial planning framework to
guide future development and provision of strategic infrastructure and serves as a basis for
the planning of major development nodes and the preparation of district plans. Building

upon the foundation of ‘Hong Kong 2030’, 'Hong Kong 2030+: Towards a Planning Vision
and Strategy Transcending 2030' (‘Hong Kong 2030+’) aims to provide a strategic spatial
planning framework for the future planning, land and infrastructure development as well as
the shaping of the built and natural environment. The final recommendations of the ‘Hong

Kong 2030+’ were promulgated in October 2021.

Statutory Plans

The Department assists TPB to prepare statutory plans in the form of outline zoning plans

and development permission area plans under the TPO. These statutory plans have the
following main functions:

• regulating development through specifying the types of permitted land uses and
development parameters on individual parcels of land;

• reserving land for various types of uses; and

• undertaking enforcement and prosecution actions against unauthorised developments
in the rural New Territories.

Departmental Plans

The departmental plans in the form of outline development plans and layout plans show

more detailed level of planning parameters.

Hong Kong Planning Standards and Guidelines

It is a government manual of criteria for determining the scale, location and site
requirements of various land uses and facilities.

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